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Carol Lawson, a spokeswoman with the medical examiner’s office, said it is estimated to be mid-January before the testing results, and therefore autopsy reports, are completed.

The bodies were found after neighbors smelled an odor coming from the apartment. No note had been left behind, Loughman said.

The couple were believed common-law married.

Tarrant County court records show Clark was convicted in February 2011 of misdemeanor assault and sentenced to 30 days in jail for hitting Howard.

Howard was charged in June 2007 with aggravated assault for attacking a different man with a knife and cellphone. Court records show she pleaded guilty in February 2008 to the lesser charge of misdemeanor assault and was sentenced to one year in jail.